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Canadian Prime Ministers hold the highest office in Canadian government.  Canadian Confederation was officially declared in 1867, although it was not formally integrated into the British constitution until 1905.

The Prime Minister and structure of the Canadian government was originally modeled after the British system.  Generally there are two or three political parties in Canada.  The Conservative party of Canada tends to be more right wing, the Liberal Party of Canada which is more left-wing, and the New Democratic Party or NDP which has a stronger social and unionist following.

In recent years there have been several other parties including the Green Party which have gained a significant amount of traction.  Also in Québec the Bloc Québecois has gained substantial support from the French population.

The canadian prime minister is elected is by achieving the highest number of parliamentary seats in the country.  Each area of the country has a number of seats and one Minister of Parliament (MP) is elected for each parliamentary seat.  For example in a city of one million people there may be 5 to 10 different parliamentary seats, and each will have an MP elected.

The political party that acquires the most seats during the election forms the government.  This can be a majority government if one party acquires more seats than all of the other parties combined, or if one party gets the most seats but it does not equal more than the total number of seats from all the other parties then they can form a minority government.

There have been 22 different individuals who have become Canadian Prime Minister, and several of them have held the office multiple times.  Sir John A. Macdonald was the 1st Canadian Prime Minister in 1867, and Stephen Harper is the current Canadian Prime Minister, and he was first elected in February 2006.

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